5th IPCC Synthesis Report released

03 November 2014

The synthesis report from the IPCC’s fifth assessment period was released on Saturday.

This document is a collective assessment of climate change by governments, subject to agreement by representatives of 195 government members. It reports that anthropogenic climate change poses substantial global risks, stressing the importance of keeping warming below 2 degrees celcius. It states that the cost of intervention will be higher if intervention is delayed, and advocates for an integrated individual, governmental and corporate response, which may include changes to water, energy and land use, as well as renewable energy and carbon sequestration technologies. The synthesis report is available here.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is an interdisciplinary research centre at CRASSH within the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse.